CRI News

Autumn 2025: Marín Rós Eyjólfsdóttir, UNICEF Iceland and student of the ‘Master's of Advanced Studies of Children's Rights’ at the University of Geneva, is writing an application for postgraduate studies. Marín did an internship at the Sociology of Law Department in 2024.

2025: We are working on research contacts with the teacher training programme in Lund and student organisations in Sweden for an upcoming application to Nordforsk. The research application is about how children's and young people's voices can be included in the training of people who work with children in their profession.

2024-2025: Ongoing work on a Nordic anthology: Building a Sustainable Society Through Child Participation - Empowering Futures with participants from all Nordic countries. Springer will publish the anthology in autumn 2025. In November 2024, the authors gathered for a one-day workshop in Copenhagen, made possible by a grant from the Justa Gardi Foundation.

2024: Berit Skauge, PhD student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, who was a guest doctoral student in Lund in the spring of 2023, visited the Children's Rights Institute together with representatives from Trondheim, Malvik, the Varnes region and Stordal in Norway to discuss the initiatives these municipalities have taken to strengthen child rights in municipal activities. Mimi Petersen from Copenhagen University College also took part in the discussions.

2023-30-08–2023-01-09: Conference in Lund: ‘Empowering Children and Youth through Law and Participation’ within the framework of the ‘RCSL Conference 2024’. 28 people participated, of whom 17 were from non-European countries and 11 from European countries.

2023-04-28: Kristian Gustavsson from the Faculty of Law and Davor Vuleta from the Sociology Law Department talked about their research. Davor talked about recent figures regarding children in the Swedish Enforcement Authority's (Kronofogden) register, such as how many children are in the register and how it has looked historically, how many children live in over-indebted families, how many children are affected by evictions, etc. Kristian focused on children's rights in debt collection and took his starting point in his dissertation.

2023-03-02: Johanna von Bahr, an investigator for children's rights in practice at the Swedish Arts Council and member of the Swedish Institute for Children's Rights, talks about the Swedish Arts Council's work on children's rights to art and culture.

2022-05-18: Anna Litsmark, PhD student in environmental psychology at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University of Technology, presents her research on the role of outdoor lighting for children's independent mobility in urban environments and qualities in the illuminated environment that are important from a child's perspective.

2022-03-28: Amira Sofie Sandin, Senior Lecturer in Library and Information Science at the University of Borås, lectures on including young people as active participants in research.

2021-12-18: Child Rights Institute and Lund University invite CRC Change Agents to participate in a remote conference to discuss the impact of the pandemic in countries and schools worldwide.

2020-12-08: Seminar open for the Child Rights Institute network, 13:15-15:00 (Zoom). Contact anna [dot] sonander [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Sonander) or lina [dot] ponnert [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (Lina Ponnert )for more information.

2020-10-19: The Child Rights Institute organises a seminar as part of the "Child protection week" with Region Skåne and the SUS Child Protection Team.

2020-09-11: Research seminar open to the Child Rights Institute network members.

2019-11-20: The Child Rights Insitute publishes a Swedish anthology about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. An article in Swedish about the book is available on the Faculty of Social Science's website.

2018-11-06 Better knowledge of child rights when 14 countries contribute to a digital platform

2017-06-01: Change agents on children’s rights told their stories